Friday, October 10, 2008

fatal and hungry

In keeping with the last post, I found one of my favorite poems. I love this poem, the idea of the encounter...however, notice that it is the size of the arachnid in question (most likely Argiope Aurantia, given the fact that she's made her home in the pumpkin vines) that scares Piercy. Still, it's a beautiful poem, and makes me feel the fall that is creeping up around my windows.

Your web spans a distanceof two of my hands spreadturning the space between unrelateduprights, accidental neighbors, fennel, cornstalks into a frame. The patterned webstartles me, as if a grasshopperspoke, as if a moth whispered.The bold design cannot havea predatory use: no fly,no mite or wasp caught by its zigzagas my gaze is. Then I see you,big, much bigger than I feelspiders ought to be. Black and goldyou are a shiny brooch with legsof derricks. I remind youI am a general friend to yourkind. I rescue your kinfolkfrom the bathtub fall morningsbefore I run the water. Iremind you nervously we areartisans, we both make outof what we take in and whatwe pass through our guts a patternedobject slung on the world.I detour your net carefullypicking my way through thepumpkin vines. The motherof nightmares fatal and hungry,you kill for a living. Beautyis only a sideline, and your mateapproaches you with infinitecaution or you eat him too.You stare at me, you do notscuttle or hide, you wait.I go round and leave you mistressof your territory, not inkindness but in awe. Stayout of my dreams, Hecateof the garden patch, Argiope.

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